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Your Task
In the world of competitive sports events, such as Olympic, World Cup Soccer games, etc., Chinese sports teams are strong in some areas, like diving, Ping-pong .....but very weak in other areas, such as soccer. You need to do some research on what types of sports are their strong suits and what are the weakest ones. What is your views on the causes and suggestion on how to improve?
1. What sports are strong suits for Chinese teams? Why?
2. What sports are weak for Chinese teams? Why?
3. What do you think the problem is for Chinese Soccer team?
4. What do you suggest them to do in order to improve their skills
5. Comparing sports between China and U.S.
6. What sports do you personally like to do and why?
7. What do you think about the fact that so many children in US want to be a professional athletes? Do you think that it is a realistic thing to do? Why
Please go on the internet and research on the related topics.
Go on Youtube and watch some interesting videos.
Rubric for Chinese Sports
4/8/19
世界: shì jiè world
世界杯: World Cup
为了: wèile prep for the sake of
提高: tígāo v to improve; to raise; to heighten
水平: shuŭpíng n level; standard
比赛: bǐsài n/v game; match; competition; to compete
赛车: car race
赛马: horse race
赛场: game field
球赛: ball game
国际 : guójì adj international
国际比赛: international competition
国际机场: international airport
国际学校: international school
国际关系: international relation; diplomat
美式: Měishì adj American-style
女式: women's style
男式:men's style
脚: jiǎo n foot
三脚架: tri-pod
脚步: pace; foot steps
脚后跟: heel of foot
抱: bào v to hold or carry in the arms
压: yā v to press; to hold down; to weigh down
压力: pressure
高压: high voltage
电压: electrical voltage
水压: water pressure
气压: air pressure
躺: tǎng v lay/lei down
站: zhàn v to stand
被/让/叫: bèi/rang/jiào prep by [See Grammar 6.]
才能: cái néng able to/ n talent
无能: useless， powerless
担心: dān xīn vo to worry
放心: stop worrying
兴奋: xìng fèn; excited
棒: bàng adj fantastic; super [colloq.]
强/强壮: (qiang zhuang) strong
弱/软弱: ruan3ruo4 weak
运动服 :yùndòngfú n sportswear; athletic clothing
工作服: work uniform
运动会: sports event
运动员: athletes
体操: gymnastics
半天: bàntiān half a day; a long time
糟糕: zāogāo oh shoot!
着 : zhe signifies the continuation of an action or a state.
http://quizlet.com/62193345/3-sports-p2-flash-cards/
http://quizlet.com/62193542/3-sports-p2-no-pinyin-flash-cards/
Vocab Quiz on 4/10/19
4/23-24/19
1. R-1 Vocabulary Practice
(Pair work)
世界: The world is a big family (家庭）.
世界杯: Do you watch the World Cup Soccer games?
为了: For the sake of learning Asian Studies, my cousin went to Korea.
提高: In order to improve his Chinese, Mr. Gold went to Hebei Province.
水平: In order to improve people's living （生活）standard, they opened many stores.
比赛: The Math competition will be at the Qinghua University.
赛车: His cousin loves to watch the car race, very dangerous and exciting.
赛马: In order to be in a horse race, you must have a great horse.
赛场: The game field is huge, even bigger than Yankee Stadium.
球赛: How many basketball games have you been to? I went none this year.
国际: When is the International Soccer game this year?
国际比赛: During the international competition, European teams did much better than the Asian teams.
国际机场: The airport in Beijing is called the "Capital International Airport".
国际学校: I heard that she is going to attend an international school in Tianjin.
国际关系: The international relation between North Korea and the U.S. has not been good.
美式: Do you like American-style football?
女式/男式: They not only sell women's style shoes but also men's style
脚: His feet are very stinky.
三脚架: Do you have a tripod? I need to take some photos.
脚步: I heard his footsteps, very heavy.
脚后跟: Wearing high-heels shoes makes my heel of foot hurt very much.
抱: Let me hold your handbag in one hand, and hold all the books in the other hand.
压: Please press the paper with both of your hands.
压力: There is a lot of pressure to improve my writing level.
高压: Be careful! This is a high voltage electrical box.
电压: The electrical voltage in China is 220.
水压: The water pressure in this house is not too good.
气压: High air pressure makes the weather nice and cool.
躺: The doctor told me to lie down and rest for a while.
站: Can you stand up and stay there for at least 30 minutes?
被/让/叫: My lunch was eaten by someone.
才能: She has many talents, singing, dancing, just like a movie star.
担心: I worry about tomorrow's weather. Is it going to be both cold and snowy?
放心: Please stop worrying! I will find the lawyer.
棒: That's fantastic! I am very happy.
强/强壮: Belgium soccer team is stronger than the USA soccer team.
弱/软弱: I don't know why the Chinese soccer team is so weak.
兴奋: The World Cup will be in South America. I am very excited!
校服: Why American public school students do not wear school uniforms.
运动服: Chinese students uniforms look like athletic clothing
工作服: Does your dad have to wear work uniform?
运动会: Our school has a sports event once a year.
运动员: All athletes must wear sports uniforms.
体操: Chinese athletes are very good at gymnastics.
半天: I have been waiting for you for a long time. You are late again.
糟糕: Oh shoot! Chinese men's soccer team lost again!
着 : He talks and talks, then he forgets what he wants to say.
2. Language Notes
1上 (shàng) is a versatile verb.
To board a car or plane is 上车/飞机and to go to the bathroom is 上厕所. In this lesson, to go to school is 上学 in colloquial Mandarin. So one can say 上小学/中学/大学 for attending elementary school/ middle school/college.
2. 为了 (wèile) usually appears in the first clause of a complex sentence, e.g., 为了学好 中文，他每天听两个小时录音 (In order to learn Chinese well, he listens to the recording for two hours every day).
3. 赛 (sài) stands for 比赛 (bǐsài).
4. Although the term 足球 (zúqiú) literally means “football,” it refers to soccer, rather than American football. To avoid confusion, Chinese speakers refer to American football as 美式足球 (Měishì zúqiú, American-style football) or 橄榄球 (gǎnlǎn qiú, lit., “olive ball”).
5. 半天 (bàntiān) does not always mean exactly a “half-day” as the word literally suggests. Rather, it often metaphorically denotes a comparatively long stretch of time.
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Grammar 4. Duration of Actions
Please watch the video for grammar instruction:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4pZ77mi8UQ
When a sentence contains both a time expression that indicates the duration of action and an object, it needs to be formed in one of these two patterns:
A. Repetition of the verb or B. Time expression placed before the object, often with 的
1. A. 她每天听录音听一个小时。
B. 她每天听一个小时(的)录音。
(She listens to recordings for an hour every day.)
2. A. 她每天下午游泳游四十分钟。
B. 她每天下午游四十分钟(的)泳。
(She swims for forty minutes every afternoon.)
3. A. 她每天看英文报纸看两个小时，所以英文越来越好了。
B. 她每天看两个小时(的)英文报纸，所以英文越来越好了。
(She reads English newspapers for two hours every day, so her English is getting better and better.)
R-2. A Busy Day?
Take a look at the chart and summarize who did what for how long yesterday.
Example: 8:00pm– 11:00pm danced
费先生昨天跳舞跳 了三个小时。
or 费先生昨天跳了三 个小时（的）舞。
Do any 2:
1. 7:00am–8:00am swam
2. 7:30am– 8:15am played tennis
3. 11:00am–12:00pm did ice-skating
4. 10:00am–12:30pm cleaning the room
5. 4:00pm–6:30pm did laundry
R-3. Study Strategies
Wang Hong came to the United States to improve her English. To achieve her goal, she watches two hours of English-language TV every day. How can you improve your Chinese? Get together with a group of classmates and get everyone’s suggestions by asking 怎么才能提高中文水平
Example: 1.为了提高中文水平, 你应该每天听两个小时（的）录音。
Do any 2:
1. In order to improve your Chinese level, you should practice speaking for half an hour.
Then you will speak Chinese better and better.
2. In order to improve your Chinese level, you should live in China for a few months.
Then you will speak Chinese better and better.
3. In order to improve your Chinese level, you should review all the vocabulary for 15 minutes every day. Then you will get higher and higher scores on your test.
4. In order to improve your Chinese level, you should watch Chinese TV for at least for two hours. Then your listening comprehension will be better and better.
1. take quiz
2. Grammar 5. The Particle 着 (zhe)
Please watch the video for the grammar instructions
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYI0C92t8RM
着 (zhe) signifies the continuation of an action or a state. Its function is descriptive. When 着 is used between two verbs, the one that precedes 着 signifies the accompanying action, while the second verb signifies the main action.
1.老师站着教课，学生坐着听课。 (While the teacher was standing there to lecture, the students sat listening.)
2. 我喜欢躺着听音乐。 (I like to listen to music while lying down.)
3. 美式足球可以抱着球跑。 (In American football, you can run with the ball in your hands.)
着 is normally used after a verb to indicate a continuing action or a state. 在is normally used before a verb to indicate an ongoing action.
4. A: 学生们在做什么呢？ (What are the students doing?)
B: 在运动。 (They’re exercising.)
在 in (4) above cannot be replaced with 着. Likewise, 着 in the earlier sentences cannot be replaced with 在, either.
R-4. Describing What You See
Describe the persons in the pictures using
“V + 着 (zhe)” structure.
Example:
王朋、高文中、李友坐着聊天儿。高小音站着聊天儿。
1. Mr. 刘 talks /standing,
2. Auntie White reads/laying down
3. Ms. 李listens to music/ sitting
4. Uncle 高 watches TV /holding a child
6. 被/叫/让 (bèi/jiào/ràng) in Passive-Voice Sentences
Please watch the video for the grammar instructions
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fq559iEbWB0
A sentence in the passive voice can be constructed with 被, 叫, or 让. Its structure is as follows:
receiver of the action + 被 / 叫 / 让 + agent of the action + verb + other element (complement/了, etc.)
1. (My homework was eaten by my dog.)
我的作业被狗吃了。
2. (The books that you bought were taken away by your girlfriend.)
你买的书被你的女朋友拿走了。
3. (Oh gosh, your tennis racket was crushed [by me].)
糟糕！你的网球拍被我压坏了。
4. (Take a look. My pears were crushed by your watermelon.)
你看，我的梨被你的西瓜压了。
In Chinese, the passive voice is not used as often as it is in English. It often carries negative connotations and usually appears in situations that are unpleasant for the receiver of the action, or in situations where something is lost. As in the 把 structure (see Lesson 13), the verb is usually followed by another element, such as a completion or 了.
In a passive-voice sentence with 被 /叫 /让 , the agent of the action does not always have to be specified. If the agent of the action is someone that is not identifiable or need not be identified, it can be referred to simply as 人 (someone; people).
5. 我的信用卡被/叫/让人拿走了。 (My credit card was taken away.)
With 被 , the agent of the action can be omitted from the sentence:
6. 同学们在教室里又唱又跳，他快被吵死了。 (His classmates are singing and dancing in the classroom. The noise is driving him to distraction/is killing him.)
被 sometimes can be used in a positive sense, but we will not discuss it in detail here.
R-5. Not His Lucky Day!
Use the 被 (bèi)/叫 (jiào)/让 (ràng) structure to describe what happened to Little Gao yesterday.
Do any 3:
1. His homework was eaten by his dog.
2. His coffee was drunk by his sister.
3. His credit card was taken away from him by his mother.
4. His car was driven to school by his brother.
5. The birthday gift that he was going to give to his friend was crushed by the sofa.
Have any of these ever happened to you? Do you have any similar experiences that you could share with your class?
1. Take quiz
2. Speaking Practice 1
R-6. Workout Queen/King!
Go around the class and ask one another:
1. Do you exercise?
If so: If not:
2. What sports do you play? 2. What sports do you dislike?
3. Why do you like them? 3. Why don’t you like them?
4. How often do you exercise? 4. How long have you not been exercising?
5. How long do you exercise each time? 5. When do you plan to start exercising?
After gathering everyone’s information, then tell the class who the workout king/queen is. 运动得最多是我们的运动天王！
Please watch video instruction:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5d3Uq2meVw
R-7. adj +棒: bàng adj fantastic; super [colloq.]
EX: 他说中文说得很棒！
1. My uncle plays soccer super well!
2. My grandma cooks Indian food supper well.
3. Mr. 钱 plays Chinese chess super well.
4. Attorney 赵 plays golf super well!
R-8. 为了 usually appears in the first clause of a complex sentence.
EX: 为了给我的妈妈买生日礼物，我去了好几个商店。
1. In order to go to China, I must learn how to speak Chinese.
2. In order to run fast, I have to practice 3 hours a day.
3. In order to do well in the big exam, I have to review everyday.
4. In order to teach well, Ms. Wang does not go to sleep until 11:30 PM.
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Reading Practice 1
R-9 Translate Dialogue II: Watching American Football
王朋的妹妹王红刚从北京来，要在美国上大学，现在住在高小音家里学英文。为了提高英文水平，她每天都看两个小时的电视。
* * *
高小音: 快把电视打开，足球比赛开始了。
王红: 是吗？我也喜欢看足球赛。…这是什么足球啊？怎么不是圆的？
高小音: 这不是国际足球，这是美式足球。
王红: 足球应该用脚踢，为什么那个人用手抱着跑呢？
高小音: 美式足球可以用手。
王红: 你看，你看，那么多人都压在一起，下面的人不是要被压坏了吗？
高小音: 别担心，他们的身体都很棒，而且还穿特别的运动服，没问题。
王红: 我看了半天也看不懂。还是看别的吧。
高小音: 你在美国住半年就会喜欢了。我男朋友看美式足球的时候，常常连饭都忘了吃。
R-10. Recap and Narrate
Working with a partner, recap the content of Dialogue II:
1. 王红看过美式 足球吗？
2. 国际足球和美式足球有什么不同？
3. 踢美式足球的人 为什么不会被压坏?
4. 王红看得懂美式 足球吗？
5. 怎么知道高小音的男朋友喜欢看美式足球？
Reading Practice 2
R-11 Translate:
王朋的妹妹王红刚从北京来， 要在美国上大学，现在住在高小音家里学英文。为了练习英文，她每天都看两个小时的电视。这一天刚吃完晚饭，高小音就和王红看电视里的足球比赛。正在比赛的是美式足球，王红没看过美式足球，不知道球为什么不是圆的，踢球的人为什么用手抱着球跑。她看见那么多人都压在一起，担心下面的人会被压坏了。她看不懂，觉得没有意思。可是高小音说，在美国住半年就会喜欢了。
How about you?
What’s your favorite or least favorite sport?
If the sports that you like and dislike are not listed above, ask your teacher and make a note here:
Speaking Test Option 1
R-12 Look at the English Text and speak in Chinese
Dialogue II
Wang Peng’s younger sister, Wang Hong, just came from Beijing. She will be going to college in the United States. Right now she is staying at Gao Xiaoyin’s place, studying English. To improve her English, she watches two hours of TV every day.
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Gao Xiaoyin: Hurry, turn the TV on. The football game is starting.
Wang Hong: Really? I like watching football games too...What kind of football is this? How come it’s not round?
Gao Xiaoyin: This is not international football, this is American football.
Wang Hong: To play football you should kick (the ball) with your feet. Why is that guy running with the ball in his hands?
Gao Xiaoyin: In American football you can use your hands.
Wang Hong: Look! All those people are piling on top of each other. Wouldn’t the people underneath be crushed to pieces?
Gao Xiaoyin: Don’t worry, they’re really strong. Besides, they wear special sports clothing, so everything’s fine.
Wang Hong: I’ve been watching for a while and I still don’t get it. Let’s watch something else.
Gao Xiaoyin: You only have to live in America for half a year before you will begin to like American football. When my boyfriend is watching a football game, often he will even forget to eat.
R-13 Speaking Test Option 2
Using the translation you did for R-11, then converse back in Chinese.
R-14 Speaking Test Option 3
Talk about the difference between soccer and American Football. You must use conjunctions and grammatical elements that we learned so far, especially in this chapter.
R-15 Reading Test
1，随着（Suízhe as......）近几十年来中国人的生活水平的提高和改善，热量丰富的食物消费，特别是肉类，一直在上升。在城市地区的很多人，尤其是儿童，肥胖已悄然成为一个问题。这种变化体现对社会语言学也有影响(yǐngxiǎng impact)。 二十世纪七十年代之前，人们可以说 “你胖了”（你已经发胖），并把它视为恭维 (gōngwéi flattering)，但现在人们必须非常小心, 不能说某个人胖了。 不然的话会引起不高兴的感觉。
2，近几十年来，中国已经巩固 (gonggu consolidated)了其作为亚洲领先的体育强国的地位(position)。一些体育比赛项目 ，比如乒乓球和跳水，中国享有在世界上的主导地位。但是，到目前为止(Dào mùqián wéizhǐ, so far)，就像许多其他国家一样，足球这项运动在中国仍(réng, still) 最流行。但可笑的是，中国国家足球队甚至在亚洲都是二流水平。在中国“足球”实际上是美国英语的 "soccer"。在中国，美国的 "Football" 被称为(bèi chēng wèi being called) "美式足球" 或者是 "橄榄球" 。 在中国现在还没有人玩美式足球。事实上，在中国没有多少人会理解为什么美国球迷 对观看 一帮人扭打在草地上 那么狂热和兴奋。
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCDsEuDDkRU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmWOoRrWdYg
3，在中国城市中最壮观的一个场面是在清晨，当数百甚至数千的男人和女人，他们大多是老年人和退休人员，聚集在公园做太极拳和其他运动。
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8dxYPJ_8CA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-PeMnWzeNc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCIzNaTMUCc
4，在中国，所有的电视台都是国有的。除了中国中央电视台（CCTV），每个省都有自己的电视台。央视有一个频道(píndào)，CCTV-5，专门致力于(zhìlì yú focused on)运动，其中有NBA比赛，定期播出。它还提供了一个英语频道，第9频道，可以通过卫星传输接收世界各地。
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2, R-16 Speaking (Test on 5/4)
Sports 体育运动
https://quizlet.com/_8dwtqk?x=1qqt&i=1gft7
What type of sports do you like to do the most?: 你最喜欢哪种运动?
I like to do yoga and slow-run (jogging) the most. : 我最喜欢瑜珈和慢跑。
I am not interested in sports.: 我对体育 不感兴趣/没兴趣。
I do not know how to swim because I am scared to drone: 我不会游泳，因为我怕淹死。
I do not play tennis because the tennis racket is too expensive: 我不打网球，因为网球拍太贵了。
Playing basketball is exciting, but I have to invite people and it is too much work (troublesome); 打篮球很兴奋，可是得约人太麻烦了。
How do you feel about Chinese people’s sports ability?: 你觉得中国人的体育能力怎么样？
I think some Chinese teams are not bad. : 我觉得有些中国队还不错。
Their gymnastics are very strong. : 他们的体操很强。
They won all the time at international competitions. : 他们总是在国际比赛中赢。
Their diving is awesome; 他们跳水跳得非常棒；
They beat many other countries’ teams in the world. : 他们打败了世界其他的国家队。
However, their soccer team is really terrible. : 不过他们的足球队太糟糕了！
They always lose in world cup games. : 他们在世界杯比赛总是输。
I think they should improve their sports abilities. : 我觉得他们应该提高他们的体育水平。
Writing Test (5/3/19)
Your Chinese friend wants to know about your points of view on sports. Writing a passage to compare a few types of sports between Chinese teams and US teams. Which sports that Chinese teams are better/worse than US teams; what types of sports that Chinese people do but Americans don't and vice a versa. You can talk about the sports teams in our school You may talk about your favorite sports and how often you play; how good you are at playing those sports.
Writing / Speaking Rubrics
Culture Highlights
1. As living standards in China have improved in recent decades, the consumption of calorie-rich foods, especially meat, has been on the rise. Obesity has quietly become a problem for many people in urban areas, especially children. That change is reflected in sociolinguistic effects. Before the 1970s one could say “你胖了” (You’ve put on weight) and have it received as a compliment, but now one has to be really careful with that expression. Otherwise， it can cause unpleasant feelings.
2. In recent decades, China has consolidated its status as the leading sports power in Asia. In some sports events, such as table tennis and diving, China has enjoyed a dominant position in the world. By far the most popular sport in China, as in many other countries, is soccer, but ironically, China’s national soccer team is second-rate even in Asia. What Chinese speakers call “football” (足球) is actually soccer in American English. American football, called 美式足球 or 橄榄球 in China, is not played there. Actually, not many people in China would understand the frenzy and exhilaration of American fans watching what can seem to be little more than a group scuffling on grass.
3. One of the most spectacular scenes in a Chinese city is in the early morning, when hundreds or even thousands of men and women, most of them older people and retirees, gather in the parks to do Tai Chi boxing (太极拳 tàijíquán) and other forms of exercise.
4. In China, all television stations are state-owned. Apart from Chinese Central Television (CCTV), each province has its own TV stations. CCTV has a channel, CCTV 5, exclusively devoted to sports, where NBA games are regularly aired. It also offers an English channel, Channel 9, which can be received all over the world through satellite transmission.
Progress Checklist
Before proceeding to Lesson 19, be sure you can complete the following tasks in Chinese:
I am able to—
ü Explain briefly why certain sports are or are not appealing to me;
ü Describe the frequency and duration of my exercise routine, or how long I haven’t exercised;
ü Make a simple comparison between how soccer and American football are played.
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